#thyra of denmark

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Princess Thyra, sister of Empress Maria Feodorovna.

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Princesses Dagmar and Thyra of Denmark, 1863

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Princess Lovisa of Sweden with Princess Thyra of Denmark. 1870s.

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Thyra of Denmark, Crown Princess of Hanover, and her three daughters (left to right): Marie Louise,, Olga, and Alexandra

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Princess Thyra of Denmark (29 September 1853 – 26 February 1933) was the youngest daughter and fifth child of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. In 1878, she married Ernest Augustus, the exiled heir to the Kingdom of Hanover. As the Kingdom of Hanover had been annexed by Prussia in 1866, she spent most of her life in exile with her husband in Austria.

Thyra was the younger sister of Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, George I of Greece, Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia and an elder sister of Prince Valdemar of Denmark.

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Crown Prince Christian of Denmark with his wife Princess Alexandrine, née Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (left) and his sister Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover, Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale (right).

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"Her eyes are beautiful; but I’ve never seen such an awful mouth without a chin. And such a thick flat nose!” Queen Victoria writing of Princess Thyra of Denmark upon her engagement with Crown Prince Ernest August of Hannover. Ironically, Queen Victoria had tried to organize a match between Princess Thyra and her own son Prince Arthur, but been turned down.

(Princess Thyra seated in the middle between her sisters, Dagmar & Alexandra.)

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Princess Thyra of Denmark, she was the younger sister of Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and Empress Marie Feodorovna.